Hasselblad repair service manuals

[fotoroberto]

Hi, I'm looking for the Hasselblad repair manuals.
I have exploded part charts, but I need real manuals...
any .pdf around... ?

Thanks in advance

 

[wbulte]

Hi, I'm looking for the Hasselblad repair manuals.
I have exploded part charts, but I need real manuals...
any .pdf around... ?

Thanks in advance

Hasselblad produced CDROMs with service docs on them for their regional/country service centers.

Keep in mind that they are typically very terse in explaining how to service a camera. The repair techs were sent to Sweden for hands-on training. I have had the privilige of quite a few lengthy conversations with a repair tech with decades of experience in Hasselblad repair. There is no substitute for experience, there are tons of minute detail-differences in the same camera model and basically the manuals don't help you there.

Wilko

 

[polypal]

For at least one camera series there is no service manual at all.
After the introduction of the 2000 series all technicians that were about to solve problems and service these cameras were invited to receive training in Sweden.
That training consisted of a full program that took 4 days.

Technicians who know this camera and have serviced it will admit that it took them the better part of the following year and several cameras with problems to get to know these complicated constructions.
Without factory training even the most talented technicians are lost.

Think before you start taking cameras apart.
It is not only the knowledge how to go about but also the need of factory tools and measuring equipment that makes servicing and repair of these cameras a job for trained specialists.

 

[fotoroberto]

I don't really plan to do the repairs by myself, maybe some minor adjustments... I value my equipment more than that, so I'll use the services of an skilled repair man... but I would really like to understand more about this cameras, and have some technical details without disassembling them...
yes, I am that kind of a freak, i need to see how everything works... please stop me from opening my 500 c/m and get me a manual

 

[polypal]

I can not do much but here are a few images that may impress you enough to stop you from taking your camera apart.





Drawing used to apply for patents.




Diagram showing timing of body and lens




Shell removed, stop here!


All images from Rick Nordins excellent Hasselblad Compendium.
That book is a must for anybody interested in Hasselblad V series cameras.

 

[amoebahydra]

Hi, I'm looking for the Hasselblad repair manuals.
I have exploded part charts, but I need real manuals...
any .pdf around... ?

Thanks in advance

The forum did not allow me to post the links for downloading Hasselblad repair manuals, if you like to receive them please send your mailbox address via personal message.

Regards

Patrick

 

[polypal]

Hello Patrick,

Linking is not yet allowed for newly registered users.
It is not a nasty unfriendly gesture but one born out of necessity because spammers will flood the forum with their garbage if this barrier were not there.

BTW the link refers to factory information for which the copy right is owned by Hasselblad.
CD rom copies of this information are being sold at many auction sites.
All quite illegal.


Paul

 

[fotoroberto]

I can not do much but here are a few images that may impress you enough to stop you from taking your camera apart.
...
Drawing used to apply for patents.
...
Diagram showing timing of body and lens
...

Shell removed, stop here!

All images from Rick Nordins excellent Hasselblad Compendium.
That book is a must for anybody interested in Hasselblad V series cameras.

Hehe, nice try...

how about the lens, let's say Sonnar C 150...
I already cleaned rear elements, but unfortunately back lens is etched by fungus, not badly, it can be seen only under an angle, and I still couldn't prove that it makes picture different than one other Sonnar friend gave me for testing...
Anyway, if someone has an old Sonnar with nice rear lens, I'm buying...
Also, it has problem with shutter (specially 1/15 sec) it needs only cleaning, i hope...
I managed to clean and lubricate helicoid, but it is still harder to focus with cocked lens, although better than before...

Don't get me wrong, I already repaired some of my lenses, last but not least, was an 65mm Sekor for Mamiya Universal, it needed C&L, although "werk" isn't good anymore, it needs to be replaced, material is worn out, but now it works above 1/4sec, at least... until i get my hands on spare parts...

 

[polypal]

Do not think too lightly of these C lenses.
Serviced by an experienced technician they will last forever.

I have seen studio lenses that were used to do 100-150 shots a day.
After more than twenty years and about one million exposures these lenses were worn.
That would not even have happened if they were serviced more frequently by a trained technician.

 

[fotoroberto]

Yes, I believe You... it wouldn't...
and I'll have them CLA at my local Hasselblad repair man, after all it's he's job, he lives from it...
But I like to be able to do some minor repairs...
I feel good when I put something back together and it works better than before... nice feeling
sooo far from the feeling of frustration when I mess up something

 

[polypal]

For "boys" like us there used to be Meccano.
Kits with metal parts to build anything from cars with true differentials and steering wheels to large copies of the Eiffel tower.

You could make your own design fully engineered to the smallest detail.
After the job was done the construction was taken apart and a new adventure could be started.

Some how I feel you did not have a chance to use your imagination with Meccano at the age most boys want to experiment with constructions.
Maybe find a nice large Meccano kit instead of risking a nice collection of older Hasselblad lenses?

 

[fotoroberto]

For "boys" like us there used to be Meccano.
Kits with metal parts to build anything from cars with true differentials and steering wheels to large copies of the Eiffel tower.

You could make your own design fully engineered to the smallest detail.
After the job was done the construction was taken apart and a new adventure could be started.

Some how I feel you did not have a chance to use your imagination with Meccano at the age most boys want to experiment with constructions.
Maybe find a nice large Meccano kit instead of risking a nice collection of older Hasselblad lenses?

ehehehmm...
my path was somewhat different...
some of my friends had a similar kits like your meccano, not the poor me....
one day my parents found me with disassembled television, that was it, next day i went straight to the kindergarten... no more staying at home alone not that i believed there were a small people inside the TV... it was just that i had an opportunity and tools
they wish they bought me a "meccano"

 

[polypal]

Hello Roberto,

You are interested in research and have made that interest quite clear. Nothing wrong with that.

It brings me to the story a heard from a friend.

His little daughter was quite quick eating her sandwiches at breakfast.
She likes peanut butter, a nice thick layer of that stuff on her bread each morning.

That evening my friend wanted to play a VHS tape.
He put the tape in the VHS recorder and experienced some resistance.
He pulled the cassette with the tape out and saw it was covered with peanut butter.
That explained the quick breakfast that morning.
His daughter found a good destination for her sandwich.
It fitted nicely in the VHS recorder.

Paul

 

[wbulte]

For at least one camera series there is no service manual at all.
After the introduction of the 2000 series all technicians that were about to solve problems and service these cameras were invited to receive training in Sweden.
That training consisted of a full program that took 4 days.

For the 2000 series there is this nice instruction video. I have seen it. But it simply does not replace experience and training.

For the curious an inside peek of some 500-series can be found here

Wilko

 

[filmcapture]

I don't really plan to do the repairs by myself, maybe some minor adjustments... I value my equipment more than that, so I'll use the services of an skilled repair man... but I would really like to understand more about this cameras, and have some technical details without disassembling them...
yes, I am that kind of a freak, i need to see how everything works... please stop me from opening my 500 c/m and get me a manual

PM me your email address and I can send you 500C/M service manual.